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I have had a terrible time with Linksys of late. The last time I got a linksys router I had to return two of them before I got one that worked at all. The first one dropped the WAN connection every 10 minutes or so, the replacement started smoking after a few minutes, the second replacement worked alright, but still dropped the WAN connection every few days.
My dad had trouble with a Belkin.
In both cases we ended up with a Netgear router and they have worked great.
My BIL has had trouble with DLink, but he's always tweaking his equipment so I think he'd have trouble with any brand.
I CAN HAZ INTERWEBS!!!
Apparently there was water in one of the lines on the roof. It has now been replaced and all my HD channels have returned. Huzzah!
I have only owned Linksys after a Dlink cable modem did a bad thing years ago.
We were generally not pleased with our DLink.
I've been pretty pleased with my Belkin. The cat's knocked it off the table a couple of times, and it still keeps working. (The cable modem keeps working, that is. The cat disdains work as is right and proper for his species.)
Our whole system is hodgepodge now. We have the Belkin router, 24-port D-Link wired gigabit switch, Linksys -n adapter to upgrade the SO's laptop. My VAIO came with n, which is another part of why we went the way we did. The switch was for all the wired outlets in the new house, which are super nice to have. We were dubious about whether or not we'd actually need them, with wireless hitting its peak when we were planning, but it's been handy to have reliable quick connections all over the place.
Oh, and we'll be replacing the router shortly with a Cradlepoint, which will play nicely with our cellular modem.
As soon as I'm not scrambling week to week for cash, I really need to dump the DSL service I've been getting for a while, and replace it with cable.
How do I change a shortname in OS X? The shop that repaired my laptop set me up as firstnamelastname, and I want it just to be firstname. I can change my user name, but the "shortname" stays long.
You will have to create a whole new account:
- Create a temporary, generic user account with admin privileges. Call it "admin"
- Log off completely as yourself, and log in as admin
- Create a new user account, ita.
- From the command line, type "sudo mv /Users/itasurname /Users/ita"
- Type "sudo chown -R ita:ita /Users/ita" (This make take a while to complete).
- Log off as admin, log in as ita, make sure everything is OK
- Delete the itasurname and admin accounts (if desired).
Thanks. I tried something like that, differing because I'd renamed the user directory to "ita" beforehand.
Looking good so far.
